I finally got around to installing X-Plane 7 on my Mac (since my PC is 200 miles away), and have just spent a happy hour tooling around in – of all things – a Fairey Rotodyne. Top fun, but in honour of the real thing I left the volume up rather high. Remind me to apologise to the neighbours in the morning.
Oh, and fly-by-mouse is utterly terrible, believe me. Even when you don’t have to worry about two different throttles and a collective control…